KnowraPenelope LivelyPenelope LivelyPenelope Lively is an English novelist and children’s author whose novel Moon Tiger won the 1987 Booker Prize.BriefConnectMoon Tiger: A 1987 novel by Penelope Lively, narrated by a dying historian who revisits her past. Its Booker Prize win made it Lively’s best-known novel.Historical fiction: Fiction whose plots or settings engage substantially with periods preceding the author’s lifetime. Lively’s novels often make the past an active presence in contemporary lives.Booker Prize: An annual literary award for a novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. Lively won the 1987 prize for Moon Tiger.Cairo: The capital of Egypt, situated on the Nile and a major center of the Arab world. Lively was born there in 1933 and spent part of her childhood in Egypt.The Ghost of Thomas Kempe: A 1973 children’s novel by Penelope Lively about a boy haunted by a seventeenth-century spirit. This Carnegie Medal-winning book established her reputation as a children’s author.Collective memory: Shared representations of the past that communities sustain through stories, practices, and institutions. Her fiction explores how public histories frame private recollection.Carnegie Medal: A British literary award recognizing an outstanding book for children or young adults. Lively received it for The Ghost of Thomas Kempe in 1973.Second World War: A global war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis and Allied powers. The war shaped Lively’s childhood and supplies a central historical setting in Moon Tiger.The Photograph: A 2003 novel by Penelope Lively in which a discovered photograph exposes a family secret. It exemplifies her use of evidence and memory to unsettle the present.Autobiographical memory: Memory for events and experiences in one’s own life. The recollections in Moon Tiger show how personal memory reshapes a life story.Show all 22